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The only thing Taylor Swift is qualified to advise about is how to succeed if you are born Taylor Swift.

by throwawayq3423 3y ago

WalterBright 3y ago
As if all the work she put into it and her single minded focus made no difference.
- throwawayq3423 3y ago
  How many others did exactly this (the advice she would give?) and didn't make it, because they weren't her.
  - WalterBright 3y ago
    How many did nothing, and failed?
  - WalterBright 3y ago
    Taylor Swift is 34. How much effort do you suspect she puts in to keeping her figure fit for her skimpy outfits? I bet it's a lot. Wealth cannot buy that, it comes from concerted, sustained effort.
    - ozim 3y ago
      I’d say not much, genetics plus being rich does all the hard work. I do know ladies that can munch sweets all day plus eat meals and they are just skinny as they always were. Rich people also don’t have to eat that much better to stay fit. Personally I don’t gain weight if I just eat what is normal for me, I gain weight when I go on vacations and have beer every day
      - WalterBright 3y ago
        Tell me how being rich keeps one effortlessly trim and fit.
        ozim 3y ago
        You don't have to be obscene rich to afford box diets that are catered directly to your home, that has counted amount of calories for you. But still being able to afford that one is quite rich I'd say. Software dev, middle management job can easily afford box diet, you don't have to be Taylor swift. Other thing is if you go to the shop and you are rich you can afford all the chocolate bars that are there and there is no money that can buy you willpower to stop you from doing that and then eating them all at once - this kind of thing I agree. But that is also a caricature of being obese.
- ceejayoz 3y ago
  You cannot be a Taylor Swift without putting in work. Putting in the work, in 99.lotsofnines% of cases, still won't make you Taylor Swift. Her success is - quite literally - unique; https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1188091063/taylor-swift-billboard-top-10-first-woman https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1188091063/taylor-swift-billb....
  - WalterBright 3y ago
    Once again, doing the work means nothing if you're not working smart. Swift is a very good businessman, and only a mediocre singer/songwriter. She works like hell, and works smart. 99.lotsofnines% of people are simply not willing to do what it takes. The success of the Rolling Stones is no accident, either. Mick Jagger relentlessly studied successful artists and emulated what worked for them. Freddie Mercury's success is the same. KISS is not a very good band, but they are very very good businessmen and showmen. This kind of work is not a guarantee of success, but not doing the work is a guarantee of not being very successful. You see this in the one-hit wonders. You could say they got lucky, because they were unable to deliver again.
    - ceejayoz 3y ago
      > Once again, doing the work means nothing if you're not working smart. Once again, at the Taylor Swift scale of things, working smart doesn't either. Not by itself. There are fundamentally more smart, hard working, pretty, fit young women who really really want to be a music superstar than there are available slots. Talent, effort, and luck are all required. The need for luck fades with repeated success, but plenty of those one-hit wonders put in lots of talent and smart effort, but were still not lucky enough to parlay it into a long career. Did hard work, smarts, fitness, looks, etc. all play a role? Sure. Are they the full equation? No.
      - WalterBright 3y ago
        I've heard a one-hit wonders play their other songs. It makes it pretty clear why they were one-hit wonders - they lacked the ability to create more good songs. Take a listen to Led Zeppelin I. Every song on the album is very good. Enter Led Zeppelin II. Every song is even better. Led Zeppelin III. Same story. I can't even think of a bad Zep song. Then look at the Monkees. They thought they were hot stuff. The album they did on their own, Headquarters, is a simply awful album. > There are fundamentally more smart, hard working, pretty, fit young women who really really want to be a music superstar than there are available slots. The ones who get to the top aren't there because they are lucky, they're there because they worked harder and smarter than the also-rans. Are you going to run down Bruno Mars, too? "They lived in the "slums of Hawaii", on the back of a car, on rooftops, and in an abandoned bird zoo" --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Mars
- FridgeSeal 3y ago
  Her talent and focus were necessary, but not sufficient.
  - WalterBright 3y ago
    How do you know that?

The only thing Taylor Swift is qualified to advise about is how to succeed if you are born Taylor Swift.

WalterBright 3y ago

As if all the work she put into it and her single minded focus made no difference.

throwawayq3423 3y ago
How many others did exactly this (the advice she would give?) and didn't make it, because they weren't her.
- WalterBright 3y ago
  How many did nothing, and failed?
- WalterBright 3y ago
  Taylor Swift is 34. How much effort do you suspect she puts in to keeping her figure fit for her skimpy outfits? I bet it's a lot. Wealth cannot buy that, it comes from concerted, sustained effort.
  - ozim 3y ago
    I’d say not much, genetics plus being rich does all the hard work. I do know ladies that can munch sweets all day plus eat meals and they are just skinny as they always were. Rich people also don’t have to eat that much better to stay fit. Personally I don’t gain weight if I just eat what is normal for me, I gain weight when I go on vacations and have beer every day
    - WalterBright 3y ago
      Tell me how being rich keeps one effortlessly trim and fit.
      - ozim 3y ago
        You don't have to be obscene rich to afford box diets that are catered directly to your home, that has counted amount of calories for you. But still being able to afford that one is quite rich I'd say. Software dev, middle management job can easily afford box diet, you don't have to be Taylor swift. Other thing is if you go to the shop and you are rich you can afford all the chocolate bars that are there and there is no money that can buy you willpower to stop you from doing that and then eating them all at once - this kind of thing I agree. But that is also a caricature of being obese.
ceejayoz 3y ago
You cannot be a Taylor Swift without putting in work. Putting in the work, in 99.lotsofnines% of cases, still won't make you Taylor Swift. Her success is - quite literally - unique; https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1188091063/taylor-swift-billboard-top-10-first-woman https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1188091063/taylor-swift-billb....
- WalterBright 3y ago
  Once again, doing the work means nothing if you're not working smart. Swift is a very good businessman, and only a mediocre singer/songwriter. She works like hell, and works smart. 99.lotsofnines% of people are simply not willing to do what it takes. The success of the Rolling Stones is no accident, either. Mick Jagger relentlessly studied successful artists and emulated what worked for them. Freddie Mercury's success is the same. KISS is not a very good band, but they are very very good businessmen and showmen. This kind of work is not a guarantee of success, but not doing the work is a guarantee of not being very successful. You see this in the one-hit wonders. You could say they got lucky, because they were unable to deliver again.
  - ceejayoz 3y ago
    > Once again, doing the work means nothing if you're not working smart. Once again, at the Taylor Swift scale of things, working smart doesn't either. Not by itself. There are fundamentally more smart, hard working, pretty, fit young women who really really want to be a music superstar than there are available slots. Talent, effort, and luck are all required. The need for luck fades with repeated success, but plenty of those one-hit wonders put in lots of talent and smart effort, but were still not lucky enough to parlay it into a long career. Did hard work, smarts, fitness, looks, etc. all play a role? Sure. Are they the full equation? No.
    - WalterBright 3y ago
      I've heard a one-hit wonders play their other songs. It makes it pretty clear why they were one-hit wonders - they lacked the ability to create more good songs. Take a listen to Led Zeppelin I. Every song on the album is very good. Enter Led Zeppelin II. Every song is even better. Led Zeppelin III. Same story. I can't even think of a bad Zep song. Then look at the Monkees. They thought they were hot stuff. The album they did on their own, Headquarters, is a simply awful album. > There are fundamentally more smart, hard working, pretty, fit young women who really really want to be a music superstar than there are available slots. The ones who get to the top aren't there because they are lucky, they're there because they worked harder and smarter than the also-rans. Are you going to run down Bruno Mars, too? "They lived in the "slums of Hawaii", on the back of a car, on rooftops, and in an abandoned bird zoo" --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Mars
FridgeSeal 3y ago
Her talent and focus were necessary, but not sufficient.
- WalterBright 3y ago
  How do you know that?